Give Peace a Chance
-released 1970
Hot As Sun
-released November 1970
The Black Album
- released December 1970
Buy the Farm
-released August 1971
With The Quarrymen Quartet
-unreleased
Too Many Fifth Beatles
- released late 1971
Political Nonsense
-released October 1972
Meat City
-released July 1973
Live and Let Die
-released December 1973
Beatles On The Run
-released July 1974
Junior's Farm
-released January 1975
The Grey Album
-released October 1975
Rock and Roll Vol. II
-released July 1976
Let'em In
-released December 1976
Here Comes the Moon
-released May 1979
Live in the 70's
-released July 1981
All Those Years Ago
-released July 1982
Men In Suits
-released July 1988
Free As A Bird
-released October 1997
Beatles Solo One
-released July 2001

After much discussion, the concept was shelved to a point. The idea of a band name change brought back memories of Pepper. John was very cynical about Paul’s Too Many People and joked that the LP be titled Too Many Nagging Wives Club Band, which after some comments about the wives being the current fifth Beatles evolved into Too Many Fifth Beatles. On the record companies’ insistence the LP was laced with power songs from the solo albums. The feud was starting to show however in the music ala How Do You Sleep (it was the album opener because of the Sgt. Pepper parody. Ringo abruptly left the initial sessions for this song, which was the only attempt in the early seventies to at least have three Beatles on a session until I’m The Greatest. But the “shock” after the release of John’s Imagine album wore off fast enough for Paul not to veto the opener, especially since his song was sort of the title of the LP. John dismissed the feud song's place on the collection, stating that it was just a subject to write about and that he didn't feel that way about Paul day to day. In fact they were spotted in a NY café sharing a dinner, which Lennon confirmed on the Dick Cavett Show. He also justified the massive Beatle product as four times the amount of tracks that the Beatles had released traditionally.
“Buy them all or don’t buy any”…

By this point, Neil Aspinall had become “Apple Central”. He could never assemble all four Beatles in the room at one time, so he did it all by phone…and post cards. The task for getting permission for photos was Neil himself (who left himself off the cover). The biggest glitches came from Pete Best (he wanted to play on the LP until it was explained that this was a “collection”), and Cynthia, who didn’t want her son Julian publicly displayed. Paul personally talked her into it, as he was the one who wanted him on as an uncle-like gesture. John and Paul both insisted on their wives’ presence on the cover, especially since that is how the LP got its name. George and Ringo did
not want their wives shown. Bob Dylan and Stu Sutcliffe retained their original positions on the cover. Everyone ever even joked about as a fifth Beatle, from Moe Howard to Muhammed Ali, from Billy Preston to Brian Wilson, from the Monkees to Mal graced the cover. To add to the confusion of cover art around this time, Frank Zappa and the Mothers’ We’re Only in it For the Money, was also in stores as a Pepper cover parody.

Regardless of on going inner feuding, the Sgt. Pepper parody cover and the beautiful, sometimes lush production of the individual tracks made this a winner on the charts, topping worldwide charts for weeks nearly outselling the Black Album.

During this period there were two near misses of a reunion. The first was a proposed film version of Yellow Submarine starring Badfinger, with the Beatles appearing at the end as Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. All four Beatles had a brotherly respect for this up and coming band and even Paul would consider appearing. The film company and its director opted for Tommy instead, since the Who agreed to more than just a cameo. Eventually, the script and idea evolved into Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, which other than George Martin producing and Billy Preston appearing had no other Beatle connections besides the music itself.

The second near miss was George’s Concert for Bangladesh. Klein begged John and Paul to do it, to help keep the group image intact. George Martin was even on stand-by to fly in an orchestra (the orchestra rehearsed scores for Something, Yesterday, Imagine, Hey Jude and the Golden Slumbers medley.